Summary
Carlos Fuentes: The Most Airy End
Carlos Fuentes' youthful masterpiece, The Most Airy End, introduces us to post-revolutionary Mexico in the early 1950s: the blood that was shed for ten years in the civil wars, included under the common name of the Mexican Revolution, has long since dried up, but it is still alive in the memories of the surviving revolutionaries and their descendants. The ideals have withered, but the victors still need to portray the descent into alienation, oppression and greed as a continuation of the revolutionary dreams of a better society. In the redistribution of power, some grabbed all the material goods and bought social reputation, some lost everything except social reputation and now live by selling it, and some - the vast majority - remained what they always were: invisible, unimportant, oppressed, eternally empty hands and hungry mouths.
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